This book explores the aesthetics of the objects and environments we encounter in daily life. Thomas Leddy stresses the close relationship between everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of art, but places special emphasis on neglected aesthetic terms such as βneat,β βmessy,β βpretty,β βlovely,β βcut
Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday
β Scribed by Ben Highmore
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 209
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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